About this course

Entry requirements

You’ll need a 2:1 honours degree in a relevant subject or overseas equivalent.

Months of entry

September

Course content

About the course

Extend your knowledge of Hispanic language and culture with this structured but flexible course.

There are taught modules and optional tailor-made directed reading modules. The course includes research training, supervised study on a specialised linguistic, literary, cultural or social topic related to your other chosen areas, and a dissertation. We also offer introductory courses in Portuguese and Catalan.

Our department

We’re very strong on Latin American literature, culture and society, contemporary Spanish culture and society and nineteenth-century Spanish literature – with a major research project on Pérez Galdós.

We specialise in Catalan studies, and the modern literature and culture of the Portuguese-speaking world. We also have expertise in contemporary Spanish politics and the novel, and Hispanic linguistics, language policy and planning.

Facilities and resources

We’re based in a new, specially designed building, with modern facilities for teaching and research. Our regular research seminars, conferences and study days give you the chance to keep up with innovative thinking and research.

You’ll have access to all the materials you’d expect from a major research university, including an extensive collection of Spanish, Portuguese and Catalan-language literature and films, newspapers and periodicals.

Core modules

Dissertation; Research Skills.

Information for international students

Overall IELTS grade of 7.0 with a minimum of 6.5 in each component, or equivalent.